November 19, 1999
November 19, 1999
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headlines"UAF for Youth," a new initiative by Chancellor Lind, will strengthen
the connection between 4-H activities and UAF. The new plan emphasizes
developing practical skills for the state's youth, and calls for increased
public awareness between the statewide community, parent volunteers and
university educators who teach 4-H members a variety of skills and techniques.
for your informationThe University of Alaska Press is pleased to announce the publication of "Music of the Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush" by Jean Murray. Cassettes and CDs are also available. Call 5831 for more information. Proposals for the next Technology Advisory Board (TAB) competition are now being accepted. Proposal guidelines and forms can be obtained from TAB's web site at www.uaf.edu/tab/ or picked up from the ASUAF office or chancellor's office. Campus will not officially close for the holidays this year; however, for those individuals who voluntarily take leave without pay during those three days , the payroll requirement of being in paid status the day before and after a holiday, in order to receive holiday pay, will be waived. Brenda Konar, SFOS, is among a team of four aquanauts now conducting marine research aboard the Aquarius, the world's only undersea research habitat. Their mission is to study photosynthesis on coral reefs from 50 feet beneath the ocean surface, off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. ABCNews Online will webcast a week-long series on the expedition, found at http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/. UAF Summer Sessions is looking for student artwork to feature on the cover of their "Summer 2000" catalog. Submissions should communicate the theme of summer in Alaska. Contact 7021 or fysummer@uaf.edu for details. The Board of Regents will conclude their meeting today, Nov. 19, on the UAF campus. They continue their discussion of UA's operating and capital budget request for next year, and will also participate in the dedication of the Howard Cutler Student Apartment Complex. Yesterday's session included the unveiling of the model for the UA Museum expansion. A UAF LIFE lecture titled "What is Holistic Health?" will be presented by Ruth Bar-Shalom Nov. 23 from 12:15-1:15 p.m. The UAF Bookstore is sponsoring a donation drive of food and cash for the Fairbanks Community Food Bank. The drive will run until Dec. 22. Call 6859 or email fybook@uaf.edu for more details. Publish your writing in a new feature of the Sun Star open to all staff, faculty and students. Anyone may submit poems or short prose excerpts to Rob Simack at fsrss@uaf.edu. Call 7540 for information. "Exotic Locals," a collection of short fiction by George Guthridge, CRA, and Janet Berliner, is being published on CD-ROM, and will be available Jan. 1, 2000 through Lone Wolf Publications. Go to http://www.dm.net/~bahwolf/exoticlocals.htm for details. ARSC will offer a series of seminars about the future of high performance computing Dec. 7-8. Visit www.arsc.edu or call 6935 for details. The Map Office now offers a new product, "The World, Physical."
Published in 1998 by the National Geographic Society, the map depicts ocean
floor features. Call 6960 for more information.
eventsmaking a differencegrants and awards
ScoreboardKristen Sullivan, Nanook volleyball, was named the Pacific West Conference Volleyball Player of the Week. Sullivan helped lead the 'Nooks to 10 conference wins and a playoff berth by recording 14 double-doubles this season. Nanook
volleyball has, for the first time in school history, earned a
position in the postseason playoffs. Their only prior appearance in postseason
play came in 1984, when every member of the conference participated in
a postseason tournament. The 'Nooks face BYU-Hawaii in the first round,
at Seattle Pacific University.
governanceStaff Council encourages
all UAF affiliates to contact Gov. Knowles to show support for 100 percent
funding of the university's budget request for FY01.
deadlinesJan. 21, 2000: Deadline to submit applications for the Global Change Student Research Grant Competition. Application packets for one or two year projects during the 2000-2001 fiscal year are available at the Center for Global Change & Arctic System Research, 306 IARC. Call 5818 or go online at http://www.cgc.uaf.edu for more details. Until filled: Nominations for the Northern Momentum Teacher/Scholar
Program will be accepted until all places are filled. Visit http://www.uaf.edu/provost/NMTSP.htm
or call 5178 for more details.
Holiday hours for Wood Center during the Thanksgiving break are
as follows:
from Paul Reichardt
Not quite a year ago, I used this column to alert the UAF community
to our institutional accreditation process, which will culminate with
a site visit in Fall 2001. Although that sounds like an event in the
distant future, people have already been hard at work getting our self-study
started. Dr. Dana Thomas is coordinating our effort, and has implemented
the process that will produce our self-study report. We are now entering
the phase when our efforts will involve the entire UAF community. Over
the next couple of weeks we will appoint our steering committee, and
host Larry Stevens from the Commission of Colleges of the Northwest
Association of Schools and Colleges on Nov. 29. Larry will assist us
in getting our collective effort off to a good start. I ask each of
you to prepare for this process by doing some homework. The key question
we must answer is, "Do we actually do what we say we do?" We want to
answer this question truthfully, so that, in addition to highlighting
our successes, we can use the self-study to get back on track if we
have strayed. I suggest we start by reviewing "what we say we do." There
are two documents essential to defining our intent: the UAF Mission
Statement and the Strategic Plan: UAF 2000. Both can be accessed online
at: http://www.uaf.edu/strategic/2000/.
Please study these documents and be prepared to fully engage in the
analysis and discourse that leads to our self-study document and accreditation
effort. |
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